Reflections from the London Prop Trading Expo on what comes after passing a funded trading challenge, and the financial, personal and professional resilience required to build a sustainable trading business.

I was fortunate to discover Dr Van Tharp’s work at the beginning of my trading journey. His thinking about beliefs, mental state and position sizing helped shape my approach to trading and eventually inspired the name TradingBeliefs. Here’s what more than two decades in financial markets have taught me about those lessons.

Well, it looks like we’re nearly there! Next Friday, 23 October, I’ll be in London delivering the Veterans Trader Project Stage 4 Trader Performance Programme, and there are just two spaces remaining. We’ve got a good group of serious, dedicated traders coming together to spend a day talking about trading performance, sharing experiences, challenging our […]

Learning about trading and becoming a trader are not the same thing. Discover how the VTP and TradingBeliefs help turn knowledge into capability.

How well do you actually know yourself as a trader? Take 8–10 minutes to complete the VTP Trader Performance Audit across Markets, Method, Money and Myself — and find out. Take the VTP Trader Performance Audit Hello Traders, Thanks to those of you who joined us today. I should reiterate that the Monday Market Update […]

The Monday Market Update returns on Monday 7 September at 12:30 London. The MMU is a concise weekly briefing for traders. We begin with the week’s big-picture market environment before examining a selected group of instruments, the factors moving them and what traders should be aware of during the week ahead. There are now two […]

Make 2026 your best trading year ever by joining the VTP Trader Accountability Group: https://bit.ly/VTPTAG Hello Traders, Thanks to those of you who joined us today. I should reiterate that the Monday Market Update is just that. A big picture overview of the markets, with a few ‘charts of interest’ thrown in. There are no […]

Make 2026 your best trading year ever by joining the VTP Trader Accountability Group: https://bit.ly/VTPTAG Hello Traders, Thanks to those of you who joined us today. I should reiterate that the Monday Market Update is just that. A big picture overview of the markets, with a few ‘charts of interest’ thrown in. There are no […]

Make 2026 your best trading year ever by joining the VTP Trader Accountability Group: https://bit.ly/VTPTAG Hello Traders, Thanks to those of you who joined us today. I should reiterate that the Monday Market Update is just that. A big picture overview of the markets, with a few ‘charts of interest’ thrown in. There are no […]

VTP Stage 4 – Trader Performance Programme Most traders eventually realise that the biggest challenge in their trading isn’t the market. It’s managing themselves. If you’ve been trading for a while, you’ll probably recognise the feeling. You know what you should be doing, but you don’t always do it consistently. Improving your trading becomes less […]